Albert Thierfelder

Who was Albert Thierfelder?

Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder was a German pathologist born in Meissen. He was the son of Stadtphysikus Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder, and was a younger brother to internist Theodor Thierfelder.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Rostock and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on sweat gland adenoma, Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom. He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in Leipzig, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of anatomic pathology in Rostock. One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist Otto Lubarsch.

In 1884/85 he was chairman of Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.

He was the author of Atlas der Pathologischen Histologie, published in seven parts from 1872 to 1881:

1 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Luftwege und der Lunge". 1872.

2 Lfg. "Pathologie Histologie des Verdauungscanals". 1873.

3 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Leber, des Pankreas und der Speicheldrüsen". 1874.

4 Lfg. "Pathologishe Histologie der serösen Haüte und Gelenke". 1875.